[poky] Out of date warning?

[Joshua Lock]

On Fri, 2011-02-25 at 06:46 -0700, Gary Thomas wrote:
> Poky just presented me with this warning (on a new machine), when building for
> an ARM (OMAP/3530) platform:
> 
> ===================================================================================
> $ bitbake omap-installer-image
> Pseudo is not present but is required, building this first before the main build
> ERROR:  Poky's config sanity checker detected a potential misconfiguration.
>      Either fix the cause of this error or at your own risk disable the checker (see sanity.conf).
>      Following is the list of potential problems / advisories:
> 
>      /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr is not 0. This will cause problems with qemu so please fix the value (as root).
> 
> To fix this in later reboots, set vm.mmap_min_addr = 0 in /etc/sysctl.conf.
> ===================================================================================
> 
> I know this warning was in place because Qemu was used to run some
> tasks, e.g. locale generation.  My impression is that this is no longer
> the case, so do we still need this warning?
> 

We have a bug tracking the issue:
http://bugzilla.pokylinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=543

Most recent update indicates that there are still edge cases which
require this check to be in place, though possibly only when running
qemu for arm images?

Cheers,
Joshua
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Joshua Lock
        Intel Open Source Technology Centre